The Role of Equality Bodies during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Equality bodies have been hard at work, safeguarding the principle of equality and non-discrimination throughout the pandemic. This factsheet gives insight into the complaints related to COVID-19, received by national equality bodies in Europe, based on the Equinet COVID-19 database. This includes:

• Common forms of discrimination for different grounds
• Concrete examples of discrimination cases across Europe
• Activities of equality bodies in response to the COVID-19 restrictive measures
• Challenges that equality bodies face in their daily work during the pandemic

This factsheet builds upon Equinet’s recent perspective Equality in the time of Covid-19: learning from equality body initiatives.